Tradition is the exaltation of what a people are able to achieve and do. It involves every aspect of the human person, which would also be reason. For finite imperfect beings, we are going to settle into certain forms of obedience or participation in a tradition. We could choose to dismisse the family but that seems to lead to dastardly results. And i don't think it's very well worked out by government either.
Richard Reinsch, editor of Law and Liberty and the host of the podcast Liberty Law Talk, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Enlightenment. Topics discussed include the search for meaning, the stability of liberalism, the rise of populism, and Solzhenitsyn's indictment of Western values from his Harvard Commencement Address of 1978.